Tyler Stefanich
Recent History
Two installations would be constructed for the fellowship. One would dissect a personʼs own recent history within the confines of the browser. A personʼs recent browser history would be documented with the use of super 8 film. The film would then be projected and run through a plexiglass case. Within the plexiglass case, labeled pegs would be positioned at key points representing the specific site visited. The film would loop around the pegs creating a linear narrative, in which the viewer may walk through.
The second installation would be looking at the past of a personʼs alias within the context of the personʼs own history. The installation would consist of two projectors, and would face opposite one another but one part of the film would be documenting a person and the actuality and physicality of that person while part of the film would be documenting all things found about there alias.
Artist statement (extract)
The idea that as a culture, through the use of Internet medium and new technology, we are perpetually regenerating a digital semblance of the present, and in turn the past, is the center of my work. My work of distorted technology and mangled devices are part of a series that focuses on the re-contextualization of contemporary cultural content and blending with artifacts of the past. Mass media, especially television, continuously provide a heavily mediated view of “current events†and often serve as a physical interface between us and the world. Example of one project that examines these relationships is, The last 5 minutes, a black and white television, which plays election coverage from 2008 and re-organizes it into parts of speech. Another such project is The Auditory Equity Interpreter, which takes the seemingly abstract numbers of the Stock Market, and translates them in real time into sound making a more perceptual experience. The sound waveforms are then displayed on the fully functional vintage Oscilloscope giving the user full control to examine the minutia of the sound/stock relationships. Such juxtaposition of old technologies with the contemporary cultural content, provokes a shift in our historical perspective, and suggests an examination of the subject matter as well as its relationships.
Tyler Stefanich
Tyler Stefanich is currently working on receiving his BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in fall of 2009. Last spring he had the privilege to travel to the Burren College of Art stay there for 5 months. This allowed him easy access to the rest of Europe and traveled to such places as Scotland, Germany, and Italy. His work has been shown in such exhibitions as Decorated, Project UFO, Me Myself and Ireland, Dear President “blank†and Made At MCAD, also he won Creative Commons 2007 Photo Contest. He also has been the recipient of the BFA Visual Scholarship, Senior Media Arts Scholarship and is on the Dean’s List.
Most recent work (submitted)
Reverberation from Tyler Stefanich on Vimeo.
Reverberation, 2009
TVs, telephone, radio and speaker
Reverberation is an installation that takes place in an abandoned home. Based on the Working Memory model, it consists of three parts: Sensory Memory, Auditory memory and Visual Memory. On the ground level of the house a live Video feed is passed into small television set, where the viewer can see and experience a mediated version of the current moment in time: the “nowâ€. From there the signal is delayed by a minute and is split into two parts, Auditory and visual and is dispersed into separate and segregated parts of the upper level of the house. Through multiple devices (such as a telephone, a radio and televisions) placed throughout the second floor the viewers have a chance to reengage in the experience previously had downstairs .
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